{"id":278,"date":"2009-08-18T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-08-18T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:00:21","slug":"is-the-public-option-really-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/278\/is-the-public-option-really-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Public Option Really Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125055374572138617.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, President Obama is trying to reassure his closest allies that the Public Option (government-run health care) is still on the table.\u00a0 As we noted <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/265\/democrats-to-lose-100-votes-if-no-public-option\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>, dropping the Public Option could mean losing over 100 votes in the House.<\/p>\n<p>From the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The government-run plan does not have the votes to pass in the Senate, and it never has,&#8221; said Michael Mahaffey, spokesman for Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.), a Finance Committee member. &#8220;So while Sen. Enzi is pleased to see the White House backing away from its insistence on including a government-run plan, the fact is this doesn&#8217;t change the dynamic in the Senate very much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President no doubt has a difficult balancing act to walk in the next few months.\u00a0 The fall of the Public Option could spell the demise of his health care overhaul and even possibly other heavy-handed legislative goals like Cap-and-Tax.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most troubling, however, is that government control could be re-branded under new names like co-op or individual mandate.\u00a0 Taxpayers should still be on the lookout for whatever derivation of government control that the White House conjures in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, President Obama is trying to reassure his closest allies that the Public Option (government-run health care) is still on the table.\u00a0 As we noted yesterday, dropping the Public Option could mean losing over 100 votes in the House. From the story: &#8220;The government-run plan does not have the votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,48,14],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-mike-enzi","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}